Millenium Health Tips

Although ovarian cancer is highly curable if diagnosed early, 75% of cases worldwide are detected in advanced stages.

This is because ovarian cancer is difficult to diagnose and often goes unnoticed for most physicians who are not oncologists.

Ovarian cancer can not be detected on physical examination during routine gynecologic consultation, as it grows up into the abdominal cavity. On the other hand, does not cause pain or other symptoms prior to suspect the disease when the tumor is small, there is no tumor marker for diagnosis.

Currently there are techniques such as CT image diagnosis, MRI, or PET, with which early diagnosis could be made, but very expensive.

However, countries like Britain, are conducting studies that seek to detect early ovarian cancer by ultrasound and tumor markers in blood are analyzed. Read the rest of this entry »